Digital Crisis

Digital Crisis We are a Cybersecurity firm that takes care of small businesses and streamline their IT systems.

Digital Crisis's mission is to provide and maintain the highest quality of personalized computer services with honesty and integrity to everyone, to offer a rewarding and nurturing work environment for experienced computer techs, and to give back to our community by offering free and discounted public services.

05/08/2026

Too many windows open? Shake the one you need and Windows 11 clears the rest instantly…

What does a "quiet" IT morning actually cost? ☕💼At a secure law firm, the workday starts without failed VPN prompts or r...
05/07/2026

What does a "quiet" IT morning actually cost? ☕💼

At a secure law firm, the workday starts without failed VPN prompts or ransomware scares. That "quiet" isn’t luck—it’s the result of daily security habits and systems working perfectly in the background.

When security becomes a seamless part of your workflow, your team spends less time in fire drills and more time on billable work. Take a walk through "a day in the life" of a firm that has mastered proactive security.



https://digitalcrisis.com/secure-law-firm/

There are a few Windows 11 features that are genuinely worth your attention right now 👍Let me walk you through the ones ...
05/06/2026

There are a few Windows 11 features that are genuinely worth your attention right now 👍

Let me walk you through the ones that could make a difference in your business…

1️⃣ Smart App Control

This checks any app you try to install against Microsoft’s threat database.

If something looks suspicious, it blocks it. That can stop malware before it ever lands on your PC 🛑

Previously, there was a strange catch: If you turned it off (say, to install something you trusted), you couldn’t turn it back on again unless you reinstalled Windows completely. Which no one is doing casually.

That’s now fixed 🥳

You can switch it on and off properly. Which means it’s finally practical to use.

2️⃣ Pick up where you left off (Android → PC)

If you use an Android phone alongside your Windows PC, you can now resume more apps directly on your desktop.

Let’s say you were editing a document or working inside an app on your phone. When you sit down at your PC, Windows can offer to continue from that exact point.

It already worked with some apps like Word, Excel, Spotify and certain browsers. Now that resume ability is expanding, including files opened inside the Copilot app (as long as they’re stored online).

It’s one of those features you don’t realize you need, until you use it a few times and see how it saves small pockets of time every day ⏱️

3️⃣ Voice access and typing improvements

Voice Access lets you control your PC using spoken commands.

Now there’s a setup wizard that makes g

05/04/2026

Most phishing scams still feel a little… amateur.

But the next shift is dangerous.

Attackers are changing how scams are built, not just how they’re sent. And the signs people have been trained to look for won’t always be there anymore…

I’ve seen a few scary headlines recently about printers “no longer being supported” in Windows.Have you?Well, let me sav...
05/03/2026

I’ve seen a few scary headlines recently about printers “no longer being supported” in Windows.

Have you?

Well, let me save you a mild panic attack 😅

Your printer is not about to stop working.

Microsoft confirmed that it has stopped publishing new V3 and V4 printer drivers through Windows Update.

That sounds dramatic. It isn’t.

First, a quick bit of translation.

A printer driver is a piece of software that allows your computer to talk to your printer. Without it, your PC and printer can’t understand each other.

For years, many printers used something called V3 or V4 drivers. These are just older driver models.

Microsoft announced back in 2023 that they were phasing these out.

This has been a slow, planned transition, not a sudden switch-off.

So, what changes this year?

👉 Microsoft will stop publishing new V3 and V4 drivers to Windows Update
👉 Existing printers using those drivers will continue to work
👉 You can still install drivers from the manufacturer (HP, Canon, etc.) if needed.

Windows isn’t deleting or blocking printers.

It isn’t turning them into expensive paperweights 🖨️

In fact, Windows 11 already includes built-in support for something called Mopria printers.

Mopria is a modern printing standard that’s been around since about 2014. If your printer supports it (many do), Windows already has what it needs built in.

That means plug-and-play without extra downloads.

Microsoft is moving toward this more modern, built-in approach instead of rel

Something new has come to Microsoft Copilot recently, and I think you’re going to like this one 👍It’s called Reminders.N...
05/02/2026

Something new has come to Microsoft Copilot recently, and I think you’re going to like this one 👍

It’s called Reminders.

Now before you roll your eyes and think, “I already have reminders on my phone,” stick with me.

This isn’t a basic alarm, it’s built into Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant.

And interestingly, you don’t need to pay for the Copilot subscription to use it. Even free users have access (with a few limits).

You can say something like: “Remind me to cancel my Microsoft 365 subscription in five minutes.”

And Copilot will send an alert to your mobile device.

Or: “Remind me every Monday at 8am to review my presentation.”

It understands dates and times automatically. You don’t need to fiddle around with settings or formats. It knows what “in five minutes” means.

It even works for recurring reminders.

You could say: “Teach me a new Spanish word every day at 9am.”

And it will send something different each time.

That’s clever 😊

A few important things to know:

• The reminders are sent to your mobile device only. So, you need the Copilot app installed on your Android or iPhone, and notifications must be turned on. If you’ve disabled permissions, nothing will pop up.

• Free users can create up to 5 reminders.

• If you have Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, you can have up to 20.

• You manage them inside the Copilot mobile app under Settings.

AI tools are all racing to become all-rounders. They don’t just want to answer questions anymore. They w

I had a conversation recently with a business owner who said, “We’re fine. We use Macs.” 🙂I completely understand that t...
05/01/2026

I had a conversation recently with a business owner who said, “We’re fine. We use Macs.” 🙂

I completely understand that thinking.

For years, Windows PCs were seen as the main target for cybercriminals. Macs felt safer.

But it’s no longer the case.

Recent research shows that macOS is now just as interesting to hackers as Windows. And the way they’re attacking businesses has evolved in some clever (and worrying) ways.

One of the biggest trends right now is something called info stealer malware ☠️

Info stealers are small programs designed to collect sensitive information from your computer and send it back to criminals. We’re talking about:

⚠️ Saved browser sessions (so they don’t even need your password)
⚠️ Keychains (where Macs store credentials)
⚠️ Cloud access tokens (digital “keys” that keep you logged into services like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace)
⚠️ Developer credentials
⚠️ Even cryptocurrency wallets

Once they have that, they can take over accounts, send fake invoices, launch ransomware, or access your cloud systems without you realizing 😬

And here’s the most worrying part: They’re not always breaking in through obvious malware downloads 🦠

Microsoft recently reported attackers using fake error messages (a trick known as social engineering).

For example, a pop-up might say there’s a problem with your system and offer a “fix”.

You download what looks like a normal Mac installer file (a DMG file, the standard Mac installation format) and that’s

04/29/2026

When tasks live in too many places, things get missed. There’s an easier way to keep them all in one spot…

04/28/2026

Quick question: Do you know how your team is using AI at work?

Not how you think they’re using it, but how they’re really using it?

Most businesses don’t. And that’s where the risk creeps in…

How often do you reach the end of the day and wonder where the time went?Everyone’s been working. Nothing’s gone wrong.Y...
04/27/2026

How often do you reach the end of the day and wonder where the time went?

Everyone’s been working. Nothing’s gone wrong.

Yet the important stuff didn’t quite move forward.

That usually isn’t about effort or focus.

It’s the small, everyday blockers that steal minutes here and there until they’ve taken the whole day with them…

This is one of those stories that reminds us why “I’ll update it later” can be risky 😬A critical vulnerability has been ...
04/26/2026

This is one of those stories that reminds us why “I’ll update it later” can be risky 😬

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin called Advanced Custom Fields: Extended.

It puts around 50,000 websites at risk of full takeover.

To understand why this matters, a bit of context helps.

WordPress powers a huge portion of the web. Many sites rely on plugins to add extra functionality, and one of the most widely used is Advanced Custom Fields (ACF).

It lets developers add custom content fields to pages and posts.

The Extended version builds on that, adding even more flexibility.

The problem is that certain versions of this plugin didn’t properly enforce role restrictions when creating or updating users through forms.

Under the right conditions, someone who isn’t logged in at all could create a new user account and assign themselves the administrator role.

And administrator access on a WordPress site means everything. Content, users, plugins, themes… full control.

Now, there is an important caveat.

This isn’t an exploit that affects every site automatically.

For the vulnerability to be abused, a site needs to be using specific user creation or update forms with role mapping enabled.

That reduces the immediate blast radius.

But the severity rating is still 9.8 out of 10, which tells you how bad things could get if the conditions are right.

The good news is that the issue is fixed in a newer version of

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